36 Views of Green Island, No. 13, Sea eagle

The thirteenth view of Green Island depicts a sea eagle, almost certainly the white-bellied sea eagle that nests along Australia's southeastern coast. The subject combines kacho-e and seascape conventions: a single raptor, either soaring above water or perched on a coastal feature, set against an expanse of sea and sky. Kristensen's tagged designation of this print under both "Birds & Flowers" and "Seascapes" reflects this hybrid framing. Compositionally, sea-eagle subjects in mokuhanga reward a strong diagonal — wing line, gaze, or dive trajectory — anchoring an otherwise open field, and Kristensen's graphic sensibility tends to emphasize such structural lines over feathered detail. The horizon would typically receive bokashi treatment, with gradient pigments hand-rubbed onto the block before printing to suggest atmospheric depth without breaking the flat planes elsewhere. As one of 36 numbered views, the sea eagle entry contributes the apex predator's perspective to the cumulative portrait of the island that the series builds across its full run.